9 activities to be used on past holidays in French as retrieval or revision tasks - include spot the error, translations, pick the odd one out, picture prompts etc
Ideas manipulated after reading books on the topic of retrieval practice
Format copied from a Twitter user who I will acknowledge when I can find the post again!
Jigsaw translations into French and English to help prepare for a writing task - crossover on units 1 and 2
JIGSAW Translation, Game of slap to practise tenses, gapped translation to look at complex structures, 4 versions of same text to highlight changes and translate, one pen one dice, plus OXO games to practice the Filme und Fernsehen and music start to chapter
Can be used as individual activities or can incorporate into lesson planning
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Make every square count - students must find the clues given in english in German in the grid and highlight both the clue and the squares in the same colour
Can extend and ask them to write a paragraph using the clues in German
Spiral reading task - comprehension,
spiral reading task - separate the text
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Answers included to translation and comprehension
great for classwork, cover or homework
Spiral text on school with no gaps between words and exercises and same text in wave format with no gaps as a reading exercise
Answer paragraph included
Great for cover, inclusion, online learning and also homework
Spiral model answer that students must separate words in
Same text then used as comprehension text and they must highlight answer in a wavy version of the text and answer in English
Same text then used as a tangled translation
Answer supplied
Cover or homework for 2 lessons
Sentence builder
Activities such as gap fill, bad translation, jumbled sentence to re-order, templates for Conti sentence stealer, delayed dictation and mind reader and then tangled translation that touches upon earlier school uniform and location
Good revision task for school
A range of worksheets on Christmas in France- a match up of vocabulary, a crossword using same vocabulary and anagrams of the words to help with the spelling of these words. There is also a gap fill in French which I then use as a translation about the christmas/epiphany period in France.